Food and exercise do not cancel each other out. We need BOTH.
Me? 60 smokin' minutes last night at 170-180 BPM AquaRunning. Heart-pounding, lung-burning, leg-churning FUN! (OKd by docs)
Reminding me that once you achieve a certain fitness threshold, "rest" days properly applied don't really take you backwards from your program. (I'm getting a good integration now of land and water activity.)
Any minute, off to do some yard-meandering time with Hardi re-marking treelets to save/eliminate. He'll end up with a nice X-country ski track, and we'll both get a privacy screen making a real BACK yard for next year's outdoor life.
Had a GREAT mini-meeting at the hot tub last night with a fitness mentee who didn't know that you can smilingly decline the weigh-in at the doc's office-- you know, when the nurse comes to get you? They depress her so much-- she's muscling up, and she's gone from a men's 3x to a men's 1X over gym shorts. She was bragging about her first 1-hour walk on land. I told her that means she ALSO can start planning an hour on the treadmill or in deep water-- slow!
I also told her how she can talk with her doc about using measurements-- and a workout log!-- instead of the scale, to track her progress. Them MD peeps jus' need a little help. :~) He can put that in her chart instead of the scale readings.